Raise your hand if you live in Governors Club and regularly ride the bus. Jim Ward fingered you at last Wednesday’s Town Council meeting during a discussion of whether the town should subsidize Chapel Hill residents who ride TTA commuter buses from the Eubanks Road park-and-ride. Beginning Aug. 15, the town will charge $2 a [...]
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Can we afford to be generous?
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 15, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/04/15/can-we-afford-to-be-generous/
Transit takes a curve
Bonnie Hauser, speaking for “Smart Transit for Orange County” (http://smarttransitfororange.wordpress.com/) provides a transit update. Just as the county is getting ready to start collecting its new half-cent transit tax, new questions are swirling about the plan and state and federal funding. It was predictable, and the politics are especially entertaining. First state lawmakers signaled their [...]
Posted by Nancy Oates on March 29, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/03/29/transit-takes-a-curve/
Parking pickle
Town Council members spoke as one voice at Monday night’s meeting to make sure Chapel Hill taxpayers who want to park won’t be taken for a ride. UNC will start charging employees for its park-and-ride lots come August, forcing Chapel Hill to keep pace. After all, if commuters have a choice between a $2-a-day lot [...]
Posted by Nancy Oates on March 27, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/03/27/parking-pickle/
Transportation meeting tonight
I don’t envy Kumar Neppalli, Chapel Hill’s traffic engineer-in-chief. Estes Drive will get a new traffic light where Library Drive T’s into it. NCDOT will cover the costs. Neppalli will work out the logistics. Everyone who has ever tried to turn east on Estes after leaving the library knows the risk of making that left [...]
Posted by Nancy Oates on February 4, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/02/04/transportation-meeting-tonight/
Park it where?
Never have I been so glad to work from home as after listening to the presentation on the state of the town’s transit system. For an hour and a half last night, Chapel Hill Transit’s interim director, Brian Litchfield, waxed eloquent about where we are and where we’re going, bus-wise. Federal and state funding projections, [...]
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 29, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/01/29/park-it-where-2/
Driving us crazy
Terri Buckner works, walks and drives in Chapel Hill. Here’s her take on Chapel Hill drivers learning the rules of the road: At last week’s Chapel Hill Town Council meeting, a resident petitioned the town to remove 3-way stops on Umstead Drive. His request launched a discussion about how many drivers don’t know what to [...]
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 23, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/01/23/driving-us-crazy/
Off to a fun start
No full moon Monday night. Nevertheless, two unusual discussions bookended the Town Council meeting. Early on, council discussed a petition to remove stop signs from three all-way stop intersections where streets teed into Umstead Drive. The signs had been taken down during recent street construction along Umstead, and the petitioner cited that as a golden [...]
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 16, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/01/16/off-to-a-fun-start/
Penny-wise or Penny foolish?
I had mentally packed Penny Rich away in mothballs after she took the county commissioner job, figuring I’d have to find new material for drama. But she hasn’t been gone even a month when here she is turning up like a bad – No, she’s heard all those jokes since grade school. Let me take [...]
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 7, 2013
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2013/01/07/penny-wise-of-penny-foolish/
On the road
As many of us sweat a dive off the impending fiscal cliff and recession that likely will follow, the Town of Chapel Hill has stirred a little economic stimulus in the Public Works Department. Tucked unobtrusively in the consent agenda for tonight’s Town Council meeting is a resolution to haul our trash to a Durham [...]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 3, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/12/03/on-the-road-2/
Preferred by whom?
After running roughshod over the preference of voters out in the county by voting for the transit tax, Chapel Hill residents got a taste at the Nov. 19 Town Council meeting of what it felt like to be dismissed. Rural and urban voters differed sharply on whether to approve a tax that the bulk of [...]
Posted by Nancy Oates on November 26, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/11/26/preferred-by-whom/